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• I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Believe, Government

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.341, University of Illinois Press

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• To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

  Emma Goldman

  Parent, Shadow, Morrow

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

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  Struggle, Men, Evil

  "The Failure of Christianity". "Mother Earth" Journal, April 1913.

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• When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

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  Men, People, Rebel

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.450, University of Illinois Press

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• If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying quality. Our entire life--production, politics, and education--rests on quantity, on numbers. The worker who once took pride in the thoroughness and quality of his work, has been replaced by brainless, incompetent automatons, who turn out enormous quantities of things, valueless to themselves, and generally injurious to the rest of mankind. Thus quantity, instead of adding to life's comforts and peace, has merely increased man's burden.

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  Pride, Men, Numbers

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

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  Religious, Sacrifice, Political

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

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  Government, Essence, Majority Rule

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.31, 谷月社

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• In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

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  Real, People, Political

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

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  Color, Glowing, People

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• If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

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  Love, Stress, Giving

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.184, University of Illinois Press

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• Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

  Emma Goldman

  Spiritual, Spiritual Death, Ideals

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• What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

  Emma Goldman

  Believe, I Believe, Process

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

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  Law, Ideas, Wheels

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding

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• The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.78, University of Illinois Press

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• Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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  Wind, World, Foolish

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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  ‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.

  Emma Goldman

  Struggle, Civilization, Majority

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• There's never been a good government.

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  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

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  Patriotic, Arrogance, Patriotism

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

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  Life, Rights, Justice

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

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  Weakness, Opponents, Fairness

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.689, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

  Emma Goldman

  War, Home, Independent

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Jobs, Mistake

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Force, Ifs

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